Arts Update

Arts Update

July 14, 1996

MUSEUM ARTIFACTS. The Mariners' Museum will open its new Collections Gallery July 27. The gallery will showcase around 100 unusual and rarely-seen artifacts from the museum's international collection of more than 35,000 maritime items.

The exhibition includes rare books, decorative boxes, buttons, cannon, china, drawings, engravings, guns, navigational instruments, paintings, ship's logs, models, scrimshaw, swords, a steam engine and more. Highlights include a button from the coat of Admiral Horatio Nelson, a vise and bench anvil from the HMS Bounty and a brass telescope inscribed with the name Oliver Hazard Perry.

The museum is located at 100 Museum Drive in Newport News. Admission is $6.50 for adults and $3.25 for students. Call 596-2222.